Fallout 4's Commonwealth Baseball Organization

[StLee]

4 April 2020 - This is my second try at this dynasty, but I feel I have it in order this time.

Disclaimer:
The following dynasty is a Fan Fiction dynasty of the game Fallout 4. I am in no way associated with Fallout, Bethesda Games, or any affiliates thereof. All images used from the game are property of Bethesda Games. I have no financial gains from these images or the characters and locations from within the game.

The Dynasty:
This dynasty will take place after the events of the end of the Fallout 4 game. I am using the Sole Survivor (also known as Nate Howard from the game demo), the main character of the game, as an ambassador in post-war Boston to generate a professional baseball league.

I am liberally using characters, places, and events from the Fallout universe to create this account of my dynasty. You can call it a true fan fiction dynasty because I am diverting from some storylines of the game (like uniting the factions) to fit my fictional needs. Thus there will be some associations that are impossible in the game that I made possible in my rewritten account of the game through this baseball league.

Also, this dynasty includes some Fallout 4 SPOILERS. If you have not played the five-year-old game but plan to in the future, you may want to consider that I am revealing the ending of the game and a few other key elements of the game in my dynasty. Please keep that in mind!!!

Additionally, I am using some language consistent with the language used in the Fallout games, so be aware that there will be adult words used, filter-willing.

As a final note, the logos used in this dynasty are taken from the Fallout Wiki and Google searches. I have created all team uniforms based on those logos. I did not create those logos, nor do I claim them as my property. I am not using them for profit, but only for entertainment purposes. Should a request from the rightful owner of those images ask that they be removed, I will comply.

I hope you enjoy this dynasty. I loved (and miss) my previous Fallout dynasty (Fallout: New Vegas' Mojave Baseball League). Life has changed--I now live back on my original side of the world--and family/job dynamics have limited my time in recent years. I will try to take my time and post when I can.

Now that I have OOTP 21, I look forward to jumping back into the dynasty world. Because of our current world situation of staying and working at home, I hope to commit more time to my creative efforts than I have in many years. I believe it will be good therapy for me.

[StLee]

Table of Contents Placeholder

1 = League Setup

2 = 2296 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...=313588&page=2

3 = 2296 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=17

4 = 2296 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=19

5 = 2297 Preseason - Battle Tournaments - Starts Here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=22

6 = 2297 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=24

7 = 2297 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=36

8 = 2297 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=40

9 = 2298 Preseason - Battle Tournaments - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=43

10 = 2298 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=44

11 = 2298 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=58

12 = 2298 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=63

13 = 2299 Preseason - Exhibiitions: NWL vs CBO and Battle Tournaments: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=67

14 = 2299 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=70

15 = 2299 NWL Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=84

16 = 2299 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=90

17 = 2299 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=96

18 = 2300 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=101

19 = 2300 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=103

20 = 2300 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=111

21 = 2300 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=114

22 = 2301 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=115

23 = 2301 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=121

24 = 2301 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=125

25 = 2302 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=129

26 = 2302 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=131

27 = 2302 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=136

28 = 2302 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=138

29 = 2303 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=140

30 = 2303 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=141

31 = 2303 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=146

32 = 2303 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=147

33 = 2304 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=150

34 = 2304 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=151

35 = 2304 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=156

36 = 2304 Offseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=157

37 = 2305 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=158

38 = 2305 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=159

39 = 2305 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=161

40 = 2305 Offseason/2306 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=162

41 = 2306 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=164

42 = 2306 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=166

43 = 2306 Offseason/2307 Preseason - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=167

44 = 2307 Season - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=169

45 = 2307 Playoffs - Starts here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...13588&page=171


Ongoing Stories

Nick Valentine Case #06969 - "A Hubflower for Magnolia"
Ch. 1 - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=811
Ch. 2 - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1277
Ch. 3 - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1939
Ch. 4 - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2840
Ch. 5 - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2985
Ch. 6 - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...21#post5056121

Settlements Today
1 Lexington 4 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...9&postcount=75
2 Goodneighbor 6 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=104
3 The Slog 7 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=122
4 Atom Cats Garage 8 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=141
5 Abernathy Farm 8 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=158
6 EBP/Easy Town 9 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=173
7 Warwick 10 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=189
8 Egret Tours Marina 11 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=209
9 University Point 12 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=225
10 County Crossing 12 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=236
11 Concord 13 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=246
12 Fairline Hill Estates 13 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=254
13 Oberland 14 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=264
14 Finch Farm 14 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=275
15 Starlight Drive-In 15 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=295
16 Jamaica Plain 16 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=304
17 Nordhagen Beach 24, 25 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=479
18 Sunshine Tidings Co-op 25 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=492
19 Vault 81 25 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=498
20 Quincy 26 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=512
21 Fort Hagen 27 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=522
22 Diamond City 28 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=548
23 Salem 29 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=579
24 Shaw High School / Roxbury 30 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=587
25 Taffington Boathouse 32 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=640
26 Mystic Pines 33 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=652
27 Cabot House 34 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=664
28 Forest Grove Marsh 34 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=673
29 Greentop Nursery 35 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=695
30 Boston Common 45 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=892
31 Outpost Zimonja 46 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=903
32 Natick Banks 47 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=921
33 Corvega Assembly Plant 47 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=938
34 Fiddler's Green Trailer Park 48 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=952
35 Bunker Hill 49 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=966
36 Haymarket Mall 49 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=975
37 Breakheart Banks 50 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=986
38 Charles View Ampitheater 50 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...&postcount=997
39 Eastlake 51 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1007
40 College Square 52 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...313588&page=52
41 Trinity Plaza 53 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1047
42 General Atomic Galleria 53 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1059
43 Malden 54 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1068
44 Mass Pike Interchange 54 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1079
45 Union Hope Cathedral 55 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1091
46 Postal Square 56 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1101
47 Somerville Place 56 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1113
48 C.I.T. Ruins 57 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1129
49 Walden Pond 126 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2510
50 Spectacle Island 129 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2563
51 Lynn Woods 131 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2618
52 Beantown Brewers 132 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2637
53 Nahant 139 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2763
54 Revere Beach 139 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2779
55 Sanctuary Hills 145 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2883
56 Everett 148 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2951
57 Medford 150 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2981
58 Lynn 150 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2995


Nuka World League Settlements
1 Bradberton 72 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1423
2 Nuka Town USA 73 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1459
3 Kiddie Kingdom 74 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1474
4 Dry Rock Gulch 76 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1508
5 Safari Adventure 77 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1521
6 Galactic Zone 79 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1569
7 Nuka-Cola Bottling Plant 80 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1589
8 Grandchester Mystery Mansion 81 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=1606

Vim! Voyage
1 Far Harbor 139 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2778
2 Echo Lake 140 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2796
3 Eden Meadows 142 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2822
4 Acadia 142 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2834
5 Harbor Grand Hotel 143 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2851
6 Cranberry Isle 144 https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=2875

Picture Testing if needed

[StLee]

As opposed to my Fallout: New Vegas dynasty, in which I took a story I had worked on (The Shadow Man) and then converted it into the OOTP and Fallout universes, this dynasty will be baseball-centric.

I still plan to give some life to the universe and add in snippets of the past and other shenanigans of the characters, but I am not devoting as much time to the Sole Survivor as I did with the Courier of New Vegas.

If you are reading this dynasty and there are references you just do not understand, then please ask! For example, you may see me refer to caps or bottle caps. In the Fallout universe, bottle caps have replaced dollars as the currency in Fallout though there are places where paper money and alternative money are used.

SPOILER ALERT:
I am using the original given demo name of the Sole Survival, Nate Howard. In the game at the start of the Great War in 2077, Nate was frozen involuntarily in a cryopod, along with his wife and child. At some unnamed point, he woke up just long enough to see his son taken and his wife murdered. He was frozen again, before finally waking up in 2287 and freeing himself from the cryo vault, Vault 111.

After escaping, the war veteran fought his way through a dangerous and divided Commonwealth. He was able to confront the kidnapper/murderer and eventually located his son. He then had to make decisions about the future of the Commonwealth, including the fate of his son who was no longer the baby he remembered.

In the game, there were four major factions with whom Nate could ally himself. In most cases, allying with one ally meant having to destroy other factions. Bethesda did not give the choice to side with everyone or no one, so players were placed into one of four (with a few variations) boxes to be able to complete the game.

I am choosing to create my own ending where Nate could use the powers he obtained to unite rather than divide the factions. In my world, all four of the factions could play an important role in unifying the Commonwealth, and each of them has greater importance in making the Commonwealth an epicenter of peace that places like the Capital Wasteland can never be. The next post will detail some of those ideas that led to baseball as the Commonwealth's pastime.

One final note: the universe created here coincides with my Fallout: New Vegas dynasty, if I can make it that far to tell the connected story. Otherwise, it's time to set up this baseball league!

[Sizeman21]

I am looking forward to this! I enjoyed your out of the box story lines for your Mojave series. I'll be subscribing to this thread!

[StLee]

History: 2287-2295

Post-Game Spoiler Alerts

2287-2288: Nate's Reign Began

Nate allied with the Minutemen to build up communities
Nate allied with the Brotherhood of Steel to be protectors of the Commonwealth
Nate took control of the Institute from his son. The Institute provided advances in science, farming, and medicine.
Despite the Railroad's protests against the Institute, Nate made peace with the Railroad, which led the charge for synth protection and rights.

2288-2293: War, Peace, and Settlements

With the help of Institute synths and coursers, Brotherhood patrols led attacks against thriving raider groups, including the Gunners throughout the southern portions of the Commonwealth, including Quincy and the Gunner's Plaza.

Community centers were built in Cambridge, Concord, Fort Hagen, Jamaica Plain, Lexington, Malden, Salem, Southie, and Quincy. Other settlements started to establish themselves due to the Minutemen and Brotherhood working together to clear threats such as raiders, super mutants, feral ghouls, deathclaws, mirelurks, and feral dogs and then repair and build structures and turret defenses.

Smaller communities were established as corporate farmlands: Abernathy, County Crossing, The Slog, Finch Farm, Sunshine Tidings, Tenpines, Warwick Homestead, Somerville Place, Oberland Station, and Greygarden, among others.

Parts of Downtown Boston started to get cleared out. After Robert MacCready was elected mayor of Diamond City, he started to expand the parameters of the "city" beyond the Great Green Jewel into the surrounding areas. Crews would clear out and build defensive structures, and more people began moving off the field area and into rebuilt structures for more room and privacy. MacReady started to dismantle shacks on the field area, including Nate's home there, Home Plate.

Corporate interests started to take hold. With a safer Commonwealth, traders in Bunker Hill started to spread out to more desirable locations, establishing their own "territories":
Trashcan Carla - Lexington's Super Duper Mart became a goods warehouse.
Doc Weathers - Established a medical supplies trading center at the National Guard Training Yard.
Deb Merchant and Kay Merchant - Started to supply goods and entertainment near the Brotherhood of Steel Headquarters at Boston Airport. Deb and Kay made East Boston Prep their own headquarters, with the Easy City Downs offering downtime entertainment to residents of nearby Nordhagen Beach and Boston Airport.
Lucas Miller - Lucas made the treasured land, Jamaica Plain, into his own "treasure box," as he called it. Lucas dealt in weapons and armor, but also helped manage the trade of stone from the nearby Quincy Quarry.

Other business enterprises included the following:
Isabel "The Mechanist" Cruz - Built a new robot production factory and service center at Fort Hagen
Arlen Glass - Fixed up Wilson Atomatoys' Corporate HQ, known after as just Atomatoys. He then started producing toys for the Commonwealth's children, including the once-popular luxury toy, the Giddyup Buttercup.

2291-2294: Mysterious Stranger Appeared

No one spoke to the Mysterious Stranger but Nate. Even Nick Valentine tried to investigate the Stranger, but his friend Nate would not tell him anything. On their own, Nate and the Stranger spent a lot of time on the fringes of the Commonwealth. They double-handedly wiped out gang establishments west of the Commonwealth at Nuka-World. Nate spent more of that time also concentrating on baseball and led the construction of baseball parks in each settlement community the Stranger and he visited. The Stranger mostly remained unseen except when needed and always silent in public. He remained a mystery until he was seen no more sometime in 2294. No one really remembers the last time or place he was seen.

2294-2295: Baseball Takes Hold

With the idea of baseball camps given to him by the Stranger, Nate educated many of the youth around the Commonwealth about the fundamentals of the game. Children from 6-18, along with some adults, spent a lot of time learning about and playing the game. Baseball became an obsession of the Commonwealth, taking over as the major pastime over former favorite pastimes such as drinking, fistfighting, and sniping.

Diamond City was fully moved to neighboring buildings with the Great Green Jewel being reconstructed back into a baseball stadium and the headquarters of Nate's ideas for a Commonwealth baseball league. MacCready moved out of the press box as his mayor's office to the nearby Hangman's Alley Hotel, and Nate established his office in the box, looking over the field.

2295: Council of Baseball Executives Established

Commissioner: Nate Howard

Operations and Corporate Interests: MacCready, Moe Cronin, Cait Irish, Sturges Freeman, Desdemona, Gwen McNamara, Daisy Librarian, Arturo Rodriguez, Deb Merchant

Brotherhood Rep: Paladin Danse
Institute Rep: Liam Binet
Minutemen Rep: Preston Garvey
Railroad Rep: Deacon

Media Relations and Coverage: Piper Wright, Nat Wright-Kowalski, Travis Miles, Anne Hargraves, George Cooper, Rex Goodman

Security: Arthur Maxson, Lancer Captain Kells, Selected Brotherhood members

Nate, along with his council, established the incorporated Commonwealth Baseball Organization to begin operations on 1 January 2296. They divided the Commonwealth into four regions that would make up the entirety of its league.

Nate began taking applications for potential owners, coaches, players, and CBO staff. By November of 2295, he had a pool of nearly 1500 players available for the 2296 season based on league rules, giving the OK to establish 24 teams throughout the Commonwealth.

[StLee]

Originally Posted by Sizeman21

I am looking forward to this! I enjoyed your out of the box story lines for your Mojave series. I'll be subscribing to this thread!

Welcome aboard! I'm glad you're back for this one. Hopefully it can deliver!

[StLee]

The CBO was divided into four leagues with each featuring six teams. Because of travel difficulties, the six teams would play the regular season only against their other league members before a CBO-wide eight-team playoff to end the season.

Games would also be played over a three-game weekend stretch only due to various travel problems and some players needing other jobs to help on farms or other labor.

The Brotherhood League: the northeast region also known as Charlestown.
Teams: County Crossing Bloodbugs, East Boston Prep Assaultrons, Finch Farm Four Leafs, Nordhagen Beach Party Boys, Salem Witch Hats, The Slog Ghouls

The Institute League: the northwest region, also known as Cambridge
Teams: Abernathy Adamantium, Concord Radstags, Fort Hagen Silver Shroud, Lexington Synths, Starlight Lady Killers, Sunshine Tidings Chemists

The Minutemen League: the southeast region, including Southie and Quincy
Teams:Atom Cats, Goodneighbor Hancocks, Jamaica Plain Treasures, Quincy Gunners, University Point Deathclaws, Warwick Mirelurks

The Railroad League: the southwest region, including Downtown Boston
Teams: Diamond City Swatters, Egret Scrappers, Fairline Hill Estates Ya Guai, Oberland T-51s, Shaw HS Knuckle Punchers, Vault 81 Dwellers

[Tyke]

Loved your original Fallout Mojave dynasty and really looking forward to following this.

[StLee]

Originally Posted by Tyke

Loved your original Fallout Mojave dynasty and really looking forward to following this.

Glad to see you're still well. Welcome back!

[StLee]

CBO Teams Pick 27

By Nat Wright-Kowalski

The Commonwealth Baseball Organization convened in the center of Diamond City at the CBO HQ, The Great Green Jewel.

The place that this reporter, as well as the Publick Occurrences office, once called home was the location of the first CBO draft where 1427 young men lined up with the chances to be chosen by one of the 24 teams.

Teams drew from a lottery to determine draft order, with the order alternating from first to last each round. The Abernathy Adamantium were selected to pick first, followed by Fort Hagen, Fairline Hill Estates, Salem, and Quincy rounding out the top five. East Boton Prep had the last pick of the first round and first pick of the second.

By the end of a 10-hour, 23-minute marathon, 648 players were selected in the 27-round draft. Shortstop Austin Engill, who grew up in Vault 81, became the first pick of the draft and first ever player selected by the CBO. After, players not selected were hunted down and murdered.

I kid, I kid. Players not selected then met with teams to sign as at-need players with one-year non-guaranteed contracts. Teams could sign a maximum of 42 players through the draft and undrafted free agency. That is because the Mysterious Stranger apparently once told Commissioner and Commonwealth Overlord Nate Howard that 42 is a perfect number.

Some of the undrafted players left in disappointment or anger. A few were physically removed from the premises.

Below is the list of the players selected in the first round, including a handsome young man this reporter calls "Husband" selected at number 10 overall by the Oberland T-51s.

Another player of note was Brotherhood of Steel representative Paladin Danse, who expressed a desire to play "for at least a couple of years" before returning to his administrative duties. He is expected to name an interim to take his place. In the meantime, he was selected 19th overall by the Scrappers of Egret Tours Marina.

[StLee]

Location: County Crossing

Nickname: Bloodbugs - Named after the blood-thirsty beasts that were mutated from what was once called mosquitoes, bloodbugs have a long, sword-like proboscis that penetrates deep into their victims and suck them dry.

Owner: Doc Weathers

Back Story: The wide-open area became a central all-purpose farming community thanks to the Minutemen. Settled between Bunker Hill and the rest of Charlestown, County Crossing was an excellent trading center for the Commonwealth. Former caravaner and traveling medicine man, Doc Weathers, decided to take control of the National Guard Training Yard and convert it into a medicine and chems supply station for the Northeast.

Stadium: Beantown Brewery Stadium - Brothers Vadim and Yefim Bobrov moved from the inskirts of Diamond City as local bartenders to producing their own beer through the Beantown Brewery just north of Oberland. Given the opportunity to become a sponsor in the league, they found the Bloodbugs to be a convenient team for them to claim stadium naming rights. The Bobrovs promised to begin production on a stadium special, which they said they would name related to bloodbugs in some way.



Location: East Boston Prep, aka Easy City, aka Easy Town, aka Brotherhood City, aka The Airport

Nickname: Assaultrons - Named after the feminine-shaped deadly assassin robots that shoot lasers out of their face, the assaultron name is meant to instill fear in its enemies.

Owners: Deb and Kay Merchant

Back Story: With a steady supply of Brotherhood of Steel soldiers passing through from Boston Airport on their way to Boston proper, married couple Deb and Kay Merchant decided to move their business out of the wreckage of Bunker Hill and into a cap trove of young, dumb soldiers looking for food, booze, and entertainment. With the nearby robot races at Easy City Downs and the seaside ballpark, East Boston Prep is a perfect location for Commonwealth baseball. Deb had proposed using the name Easy Town as the location name, though the name has not fully caught on yet in the Commonwealth, especially since old Easy City Downs billboards dot the Commonwealth. For now, the team remains East Boston Prep due to the location of the team's stadium.

Stadium: Easy Town Field - Settled at East Boston Prep, where Kay has made her clinic's location, Easy Town Field is within walking distance of the Easy City Downs track where daily robot races take up most of the soldiers' entertainment. Deb and Kay sponsor their own stadium, so they did not seek outside sponsorship.



Location: Finch Farm

Nickname: Four Leafs - Named after a prominent symbol of Boston's Irish immigrant past, Four Leafs are meant to instill great luck for their team.

Owner: Abraham Finch

Back Story: The Finches became early supporters of Nate Howard after he saved their youngest, Jake, from the clutches of The Forge gang. With Abraham being a shrewd businessman in combination with successfully farming and providing food to the downtown area, Finch Farm was a no-doubt location for a franchise. Several small settlements nearby were sure to make Finch Farms one of the more popular teams in the CBO.

Stadium: Finch Family Park - The Finch Farm is one of the larger farms in the Commonwealth, growing a number of crops, including corn, melons, gourds, and mutfruit. Because of the wealth the Finch family has accrued, they are their own stadium sponsors, though some companies have attempted to "go green" with them.

[StLee]

Location: Nordhagen Beach

Nickname: Party Boys - Named for the laissez-faire attitude many young people of the Commonwealth have, the Party Boys are representative of their cosmopolitan owner and the sheer number of beach parties happening all nights of the week.

Owner: Emogene Cabot

Back Story: Emogene has been a long-time "girl of society" among the Boston elite. With her secret formula for staying young, many suppose Emogene is older than the war, but she will never tell. Given the prospect of purchasing a place of her own away from her mother and brother's mansion, Emogene built a luxury mansion of her own at Nordhagen and started purchasing extra land across from the Nordhagen Beach settlement where a baseball park was built. Convinced that she would be blessed with an army of handsome young men, Emogene continued her dreams of having a lover or seventeen, and purchased the rights to the Party Boys franchise.

Stadium: Red Rocket Station - Kasumi Nakano, who once left her family for the synth compound Acadia in Far Harbor, followed Nate's advice to use her electrical skills to start her own business upon her return to the Commonwealth. Leaving her family's fishing home just north of Mahkra Fishpacking Plant and with an agreement with Nate that she would convert the Commonwealth's Red Rocket stations into an electrical repair franchise--focused on refrigeration, cooling, radios, and machinery, Kasumi soon built a thriving business. Her first shop opened in Nahant, which was not as far a travel to visit her aging parents as headquarters in Downtown Boston would be. Since Nahant was only a short boat ride from Nordhagen Beach, Kasumi happily tossed her caps into Emogene's hat.



Location: Salem

Nickname: Witch Hats - Owner Barney Rook described Salem to Bostoners as the "place with all the witch hats." People of the Commonwealth then started referring to Salem as that place, leaving off Rook's other descriptions of Salem, like the "place with all the ******* mirelurks, too." Witch Hats became one of Nate's favorite team names as soon as it was proposed.

Owner: Barney Rook

Back Story: Old Barney has been defending the wastes of Salem for a long time. As the ambassador and mayor of the new Salem settlement, Rook agreed to "let the kids play their stupid games in the street." Instead, a beautiful park built on the coast that doubled as a well-armed lookout post for Barney gave birth to the northeasternmost CBO franchise.

Stadium: The Coven of Salem - No corporations agreed to sponsor the stadium, probably since Salem is the most northeastern franchise, far away from Downtown Boston. Nate Howard helped out by tossing his own caps Salem's way, asking that the stadium be called The Coven. Most of the settlers were unsure what it meant but appreciated having an opportunity for a baseball park.



Location: The Slog

Nickname: Ghouls - When people think of ghouls in the Commonwealth, they realize there are two kinds, the unfortunate ones and the feral ones. While the feral ghouls terrorize the Commonwealth through their zombie-like desire for eating human guts, the unfortunate ghouls are just discriminated against because of their unsightly skin. Either way, people are intimidated by ghouls, which makes the team nickname a formidable one.

Owner: Mr. Wiseman, aka Wiseman, aka Wiseman Slog

Back Story: Being the top man of the tarberry farms in the ghoul town of the Commonwealth, The Slog, Wiseman was a wise choice to take over the franchise. While ghoul relations have become better since the ghouls were kicked out of Diamond City by then-mayor McDonough, Nate Howard has spent significant time preventing ghoul discrimination. Nate was a major proponent in opening up trading channels for tarberries throughout the Commonwealth and shut down some independent farmers looking to cut into The Slog's profits. As the leading tarberry farming community in the Commonwealth, The Slog provided an ideal location for a diverse baseball fanhood.

Stadium: Tarberry Fields Forever - As a suggestion from Nate, Wiseman agreed to self-sponsor his own stadium and followed the name Nate picked. Wiseman was not sure what the name meant, but Nate seemed to hum every time someone mentioned the name.

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Location: Abernathy Farm

Nickname: Adamantium - The indestructible material used to built stronger limbs on war-time soldiers, adamantium represents strength and great defense, a perfect combination for a battling ball club.

Owner: Blake Abernathy

Back Story: The leader of the Abernathy family farm and top tato farmer in the Commonwealth, Blake Abernathy used his built wealth to build a community and used his sizeable land for a top-notch baseball field. Blake Abernathy was one of the first people in the Commonwealth to meet Nate Howard, and a person who held Nate in esteem after Nate avenged Blake's daughter's murder.

Stadium: Tato Field - Named for the Abernathy Farm's top crop, Tato Field's left field wall protects from the outskirts of crops dotting the farm's horizon.



Location: Concord

Nickname: Radstags - These docile-looking beasts attack anyone trespassing on their territory. The two-headed ungulates feature strong, sharp horns pulsating with a radiation venom that punctures the skin and poisons any potential predators. In other words, radstags are scrappy.

Owner: Sturges, aka Sturges Freeman

Back Story: Sturges was a part of the last stand of Minutemen before Nate Howard came to their rescue at the Concord Museum of Freedom. Sturges then moved on to Sanctuary Hills where he began repairing and building up the community there. That community eventually expanded out of Sanctuary Hills to the Concord area, a place where the bombs damaged but barely destroyed any buildings. Many more settlers started to arrive from the northwest, with many stopping in Concord instead of continuing to Boston.

Stadium: Nate Howard Honorary Park - Sturges ran the town of Concord as its mayor, but the team was financed by Nate Howard's insistence that the team exist. As official owner of the team, Sturges insisted that the stadium bypass any corporate name and keep the name of its benefactor.



Location: Fort Hagen

Nickname: Silver Shroud - Named after one of the top Unstoppables superheroes of pre-war Boston, the Silver Shroud exemplifies peace, justice, and the American way of freedom from the Commies. His bravery and will are meant to be foundations of the team playing in his colors.

Owner: Isabel Cruz, aka The Mechanist, aka Queen of the Robots

Back Story: After Isabel Cruz retired from her misled life as The Mechanist, she realized that Nate had given her beyond just the gift of her freedom. Using her knowledge in robot design and radio signals, she returned to her Mechanist past by truly doing good in the Commonwealth. Nate Howard suggested that she move her operations to Fort Hagen, which proved to be a key location in eradicating the Rust Devils gang. Later, after the Commonwealth was won, Nate introduced Isabel to the ghoul Kent Connolly, the man with the foremost knowledge on The Mechanist. Kent was an expert on all of the pre-war comic book characters of the Hubris Comics world, including the Silver Shroud.

Stadium: Hubris Comics Park - Kent Connolly was not only an expert on the Unstoppables line of characters, but a major fan of the Shroud. After making peace in the Commonwealth, Nate Howard personally helped Kent fix up the Hubris Comics shop near the Charles River. There, Kent started his own Unstoppables radio broadcasts through a revamped Galaxy News Radio signal and began producing and selling Unstoppables merchandise to the Commonwealth. He was happy to team up with Isabel Cruz in a hero-villain partnership to push the Hubris Comics brand and bring the Shroud and other Unstoppables mascots to the CBO.

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Location: Lexington

Nickname: Synths- Named after the Institute's humanoid robots, these marvels range from skeleton-like models all the way to human-like. The namesake for this team is based on Model 1 synths, which are aggressive and foolhardy. While they may make mistakes in baserunning and taking chances on defense, the Synths will never back down.

Owner: Trashcan Carla

Back Story: With the Institute HQ not far away at the CIT Ruins, Carla decided the name was as good as any. While Nate Howard was not fond of Carla copying the logo, Carla decided to personalize it by adding the initials of the team, LS, to the logo.

Stadium: Super Duper Mart Stadium - When Trashcan Carla relocated from Bunker Hill, she maintained her territory in the Cambridge area. One of the larger communities ripe for settlement was Lexington, a place formerly overrun by ghouls and raiders. With the help of Nate Howard, Trashcan Carla was able to rebuild the largest Super Duper Mart in the Commonwealth. That mart became her general goods dynasty, a great stopping point between Boston and people on their way towards anywhere northwest of the big city.



Location: Starlight Drive-In

Nickname: Lady Killers - Violence is not the only game in the Commonwealth. Sometimes charm has its place. Cait thought the term Lady Killer was perfect irony for her since she had been know for a long-time as a black widow. She figured she had the black widow perk, while the boys on her team could be lady killers, charming their way through carefulness and finesse to will their way towards victory.

Owner: Cait Irish, aka Cait, Fists O'Smashey, aka Irish Cait

Back Story: Cait was a companion of Nate's through Nate's own adventures of locating his son and cleaning up the Commonwealth. Skilled in hand-to-hand cage fighting and a major league chem user, Cait was a bad day from death. After escaping her family and then the Combat Zone, Cait was a loyal follower of Nate's. Nate helped her surgically remove her chem addiction. After things settled down, Cait decided to take control of one of Nate's favorite settlements, the Starlight Drive-In. Cait worked tirelessly to build up some manufacturing in the area and cleaned up the silver screen in anticipation of Kent Connolly's promised Unstoppables series. Though there were no major companies in the Starlight Drive-In area, Cait was able to produce a peaceful, well-liked settlement.

Stadium: Valentine Detective Agency Field - Another companion of Nate, Nick Valentine, the vaunted synth detective, left Nate's side to continue his well-respected detective agency. Operating out of Diamon City, Nick moved his headquarters from the Great Green Jewel's field to luxury apartments overlooking Hangman's Alley in Diamond City. There he continued to work cases and built up a reputation as the Commonwealth's leading private detective in finding any missing person or solving any mystery. Some called him the Mystery Machine, others Synthlock Holmes. Valentine and Cait, who became acquaintances and then friends through Nate, created a great baseball partnership at the Drive-In.




Location: Sunshine Tidings Co-op

Nickname: Chemists - Named for the chem lab "manned" by a Mister Handy called Professor Goodfeels, the Chemists played upon the tradition of the communal settlement of Sunshine Tindings Co-op.

Owner: Talia McGovern

Back Story: Nate first met Talia when she lived in a synth-killing small community, Covenant. While the leaders of the community were found in contempt by Nate and a bounty hunter named Honest Dan, Nate took a liking to some of the residents, convincing them that they were brainwashed and should reconsider. The easiest to charm was Talia, who was a skilled mechanic, but a person quite lousy at being decisive. Nate told her that she could be skilled in repairs and suggested that he needed someone to govern the Sunshine Tidings Co-op. Talia said that she guessed it would be OK but only if Nate said it would be, and that was that. She moved out west to one of the only settlements where it was OK to just be groovy and relax all day. Nate figured Talia would not have to be too decisive in that case.

Stadium: Vim! Park - When Small Bertha helped to liberate and populate Far Harbor, a faraway town in the area formerly known as Maine, she was only a girl. Regardless of how small and young she was, she ruled with an iron fist and made decisions important to the community in the Acadia region. In time and with the help of many, including Nate Howard and Nick Valentine, Small Bertha was leading several communities, sent the Trappers packing, and wiped out a legion of super mutants stationed in a luxury hotel and a soft drink factory. That soft drink factory was the local favorite drink, Vim! Realizing that the factory was only a good dusting away from being operational, Small Bertha got the place up and running. Soon, Far Harbor residents were making frequent trips to ship Vim! to Boston and the Commonwealth. Small Bertha decided to open a second factory in the Commonwealth, but there needed to be new construction since factories in the Commonwealth either could not meet her needs or were in too much disrepair. She moved an office to Downtown Boston east of Diamond City and started construction of her factory, set to open sometime around 2230. She also listened to Nate's advice to pump some caps into the Sunshine Tidings franchise since it was one of the poorer franchises in the CBO. Some were surprised Bertha did not just buy out the franchise, but Nate insisted that Bertha let McGovern run the show.

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Location: Atom Cats Garage and Territory

Nickname: Atom Cats - Confusing that the name is the location, but that's what you get at the coolest place in the Commonwealth.

Owner: Zeke, aka Zeke Cat, aka That Cool Cat, aka The Cat's Meow, aka Mr. Cat, aka Top Cat, aka The Dreamiest, aka Daddy-O

Back Story: Zeke is the founder of the Atom Cats, the coolest gang in the Commonwealth and allies with Nate Howard. Zeke founded the group and has kept his meat hooks in their rise to power in the Southeast, working to fend off feral ghouls ("rubber chickens") , Gunners ("dogs on the hunt"), mirelurks ("rank crab monsters"), and raiders ("heater beaters"). They also spent a lot of time protecting nearby Warwick Homestead, which caused a mutual agreement of food for protection. The Atom Cats now have it made in the shade dealing primarily in power armor repair and customization. Zeke thought it would be a big tickle to buy one of the franchises and even give all the players on the team their own cool nickname to welcome them to the team. Then they all would know that they're in fat city, baby.

Stadium: Coolest Field in Town - When you've got hotrod paint adorning your stadium walls, you know you've just entered the Coolest Field in Town. Rockin' night until morning and then some, this stadium represents the power armor decorating culture of the Atom Cats Garage.



Location: South Boston High School - Since Goodneighbor is an all-concrete location with no room for a baseball field, the team built its stadium at South Boston High School

Nickname: Hancocks - Named after Goodneighbor's dear leader, the Hancocks represent brute strength, careful planning, and high confidence. Teams know the Hancocks will never bow down and will sign off on any chance of victory.

Owner: John Hancock, aka Hancock, aka That Ghoul Son-of-a-*****, aka John McDonough

Back Story: Hancock, mayor of Goodneighbor, is the brother of the former Diamond City mayor, Mayor McDonough. He fought for ghouls' rights before he was a ghoul himself. A terrifying leader, Hancock expects the people of his city to keep the peace or else he will knife them. Hancock assisted Nate Howard in his quests after Nate helped quell an underground rebellion in Goodneighbor. After, Hancock worked to keep peace in Downtown Boston as much as possible, leading a few of the charges against the entrenched gangs of raiders, Gunners, and supermutants in the myriad of destroyed buildings throughout Boston Common and the Financial District. Hancock used some of his earnings to purchase a franchise in the CBO and insisted that they have his name.

Stadium: Third Rail Stadium at South Boston High School - Named for Hancock's club in Goodneighbor, he thought naming the stadium after the Third Rail would help bring in some more money. Irma in Goodneighbor tried hard to convince Hancock to take a sponsorship for her Memory Den, but Hancock said that he was "having nothing of it." For now, the stadium is represented by Hancock himself.



Location: Jamaica Plain

Nickname: Treasures - Named for the 210-year-old mystery, the Treasures of the Jamaica Plain offered hope and riches to the person or group willing to penetrate the town center's extensive and expensive defense system. While many failed, Nate Howard found his way through the lasers and robots to finally open the vault, only to find out that not all treasures are made of gold. With the multitude of pamphlets and signs around the Commonwealth advertising the Treasures of Jamaica Plain, owner Lucas Miller already had his team name set. Thus, the Treasures it would be.

Owner: Lucas Miller

Back Story: Another of the Bunker Hill traveling merchants, Miller settled in Jamaica Plain, helping to build up the ruins of the town back into a thriving small city. While Miller's main base of sales is armor and weapons, he has worked to broaden his dealings in Jamaica Plain. With Doc Weathers claiming his territory in the northeast, Miller had no choice to find new territory. He found that it was a great move in the earlier days of Nate Howard's reign in the Commonwealth because his stocks helped knock the Gunners out of nearby Quincy. In addition to his base in Jamaica Plain, Miller often makes diplomatic trips to Quincy, including expanding his trade to stone from the quarry, and some of the other settlements in the area to keep the Southeast region one of the most united of the Commonwealth.

Stadium: The Treasure Box - Miller described Jamaica Plain as his own "treasure box," and the name stuck for the stadium.

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Location: Quincy

Nickname: Gunners - The military-like raider group held a solid grasp on the southern portions of the Commonwealth before Nate Howard and the Brotherhood of Steel's efforts against them. Not your typical raider group, the Gunners were well-trained, formidable fighters. After the group was either killed or converted to the common citizenry, Gunners' flags reminded people of the Commonwealth just how tough they had been. Quincy decided to use those flags as a mascot of a rough and tough group of scrappy players willing to fight until the end.

Owner: Smiling Larry

Back Story: This man and his Reckoning were once bathed in the blood of a dozen super mutants. That's how Nate Howard met him. Smiling Larry held up the ripper and, well, he just smiled. Nate recruited him at first in the Southwestern settlement, Somerville Place, to be a weapons liaison for battling the Gunners near Vault 95 and the Gunner's Plaza. After Quincy was liberated from the Gunners, Smiling Larry asked Nate to move his weapons emporium there. Along with the quarry, Quincy became a wealthier part of the Commonwealth.

Stadium – The Stone House - When not busy on her pet project in Vault 88, Valery Barstow manages the Quincy Quarries, also called Quincy Quarry. She does little of the trading of the stones produced there, leaving that to Lucas Miller in Jamaica Plain. However, she did have the idea to build the one and only purely stone stadium in the Commonwealth. Sure, the outfielders will get banged up going after long fly balls, but the stadium is a rock. No, a stone house.



Location: University Point

Nickname: Deathclaws - One of the fiercest beasts in all of the Wastelands, the deathclaw is agile, strong, and deadly, just like this baseball team. Interestingly enough, when settlers repopulated University Point, they found a terminal entry of a small gang that used to run out of that area called the University Point Deathclaws. The name stuck.

Owner: Ronnie Shaw, aka Gen. Shaw, aka Quartermaster Shaw, aka The Minutewoman

Back Story: The former Minutemen quartermaster, later general, decided to retire while she could still walk, but retirement was never going to slow down Ronnie Shaw. She knew that Nate Howard assisted the Minutemen in retaking the Castle, the Minutemen's fort headquarters, and she wanted to repay Nate in whichever way she could. When he told of the desire to create a professional baseball league in the Commonwealth, she was all in. After retiring to University Point to be near The Castle but "not up everyone's *** there," Ronnie used her retirement caps to invest in purchasing the team. Even though Heather Casdin had thought about investing, she decided to continue he rediscovery of her old home and let Ronnie do her thing. With Ronnie's military background, she is one of the more demanding owners in the league, but she will build a team of respect and discipline.

Stadium: Gwinnett Brewery Park - Rufus Rubins, with the help of his trusty protection Drinkin' Buddy, left the confines of the Hotel Rexford in Goodneighbor to get the Gwinnett Brewery up and running. One of the favorite watering holes in the Commonwealth, the Gwinnett Brewery and Restaurant serves plenty of the Minutemen stationed at The Castle, as well as other travelers coming from the Southeast or Downtown Boston.



Location: Warwick Homestead

Nickname: Mirelurks - Those pesky crab-like beasts are scattered throughout every waterway of the Wasteland, including every ocean, river, lake, and pond in the Commonwealth. The reproduce at fast rates, laying about a dozen eggs at a time once every 3-4 weeks. With strong claws and a voracious appetite, these hard-shelled beasts are dangerous and ugly.

Owner: Roger Warwick

Back Story: It was discovered in time that Roger Warwick was not who he claimed to be. Nate found out and did something about it, but Roger was always grateful for what did. At first, the Warwick Homestead was a struggling small settlement with barely enough crops to feed the Warwick family, much else anything else. However, Nate changed that fate when he showed Roger and other settlers how they could fix up the nearby wreck of the FMS Northern Star and use that ship to catch, prepare, and distribute mirelurk meat to the Commonwealth. Soon, Roger and friends started the Warwick Homestead Fisheries Company and also learned how to better grow crops for exporting a new Commonwealth favorite dish, the Crustacean Salad.

Stadium: The Homestead - Simple and elegant. Roger Warwick expressed a desire to name the stadium after the nickname bestowed on his settlement instead of after his company, Warwick Homestead Fisheries Company.

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This is awesome, looking forward to following

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Originally Posted by PocketsAintFull

This is awesome, looking forward to following

Thank you! Hope you enjoy it.

I can't wait to get to the baseball storylines. However, I am swamped with work these days. so I am working in time trying to nibble away at my little story.

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Location: Diamond City

Nickname: Swatters, aka Da Swahhhhhhhtahs - The baby of baseball fanatic Moe Cronin, the Swatters are the name he gave baseball bats for their abilities to crush skulls and swat away speeding bullets, just like the players on the team.

Owner: Moe Cronin

Back Story: Once he was taught the true game of baseball by Nate Howard, Cronin was slightly disappointed but still thirsty for more knowledge. In time, he not only invested all of his caps into baseball, but through multiple investors in Diamond City, he had a team. Of course, there were two benefits. First and foremost, Diamond City was at first located on the real baseball stadium, the Great Green Jewel of Boston. Cronin dealt in baseball equipment which functioned as weapons (waters, aka bats) and armor (catcher's equipment). He also collected baseball cards, so to say that he was born to be a baseball owner in the Commonwealth was quite an understatement. He was also the source of envy since his team would be playing half of their games at the best stadium in the Commonwealth, well, maybe even all of the world.

Stadium: The Great Green Jewel [StLee's note: you readers of this alternate universe would know that very same stadium as the famed Fenway Park, but the people of post-Great War Boston only knew it as the Great Green Jewel. Nate never called it anything else, either, so I can only assume that's what it always was.] - There was not going to be any corporate sponsor changing the name



Location: Egret Tours Marina

Nickname: Scrappers - For the people who sift through piles of junk to build a machine, this team is for them. For the people who don't need 5000 caps to buy parts for a house, this team is for them. Scrappers can find that one working wire, straighten the crooked bolt, conjure victory from nothing, this team is that. Most people made a strange look through the explanation of this team name. Who knows how long that nickname will last?

Owner: Ron Staples

Back Story: Ron Staples has not always been your conventional businessman, but his vision has led to opportunities. While set up at his one-man settlement near Walden Pond, Ron had dreams of being the best bartender in the Commonwealth. At first, Nate must have thought Ron was crazy, but then Nate decided he could use a good bartender at one of his favorite settlements, Egret Tours Marina. Ron agreed and moved there, where he became best friends with Egret Tours Marina matron, Phyllis, which most of the settlers called Old Phyllis. Soon after arriving and setting up the best bar in all of the Southwest on the Egret Tours Marina pier, Ron Staples was voted mayor of Egret Tours Marina. It's not the richest settlement in the Commonwealth and Egret Tours Marina is battling division mate Fairline Hills Estate as one of the poorer squads in the CBO.

Stadium: Old Phyllis Field - Named for Old Phyllis, the original inhabitant of Egret Tours Marina before Nate Howard convinced her to allow a settlement there. Old Phyllis was the best friend of Mayor Ron Staples, but sadly she eventually died of an unknown illness that could not be treated with meds or chems. Ron Staples wanted to name the stadium in honor of Phyllis after he could not secure a corporate sponsor for the stadium.



Location: Fairline Hill Estates

Nickname: Yao Guai - These descendants of America's black bears, the yao guai name came from Chinese in internment camps before the Great War when government entities experimented with compounds to form biological weapons. Armed with sharp teeth and claws, and a vicious attitude, regardless off what their called, yao guai are nothing to mess with.

Owner: Eleanor Scarface

Back Story: Eleanor has been shrouded in mystery, at least from her point-of-view. Rumors have swirled for years that she was the mother to a raider boss, but he got violent, thus the large scar on her face. She settled as an ammo dealer near Fairline Hills Estate and later moved her shop there at the insistence of Nate Howard. In her mid-70s, Eleanor may not have many years left, but she agreed to Nate's suggestion that she take on a team in what will be one of the fastest-growing settlements in the South.

Stadium: Yao Guai Circle - Built right in the middle of a small but growing settlement directly south of the Great Green Jewel, Yao Guai Circle fits precisely in the circular park of Fairline Hills Estate. Eleanor could not secure a corporate sponsor since there are no corporate headquarters nearby and many in the Commonwealth fail to put their trust or faith in Eleanor. Some rumors have swirled of corporate interests that may more easily ignore Eleanor's gangster past, but for right now, the Yao Guai name remains.

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Location: Oberland Station / Graygarden

Nickname: T-51s - The most advanced power armor before the Great War, the T-51 suit is known for its nearly impenetrable defense, durability, and stamina, all qualities expected of its players.

Owner: August Oberland

Back Story: August Oberland took her family name based on the settlement at Oberland Station where she became mayor. In conjunction with the robot farming settlement of Greygarden, August created a useful trading post over the northern and southern shores of the Charles River. August also worked out a deal to build the stadium in a more open space near Greygarden since the land surrounding the Oberland Station settlement is hilly and covered in trees. Since Oberland Station is one of the smaller settlements in the Commonwealth, it will be one of the teams that will need multiple investors for future financial success.

Stadium: Graygarden Park - With the success of the robots manning Greygarden, baseball in the area seemed like a perfect location. It is one of the areas easier to defend since it sits atop a large hill, and it is a short hike from Oberland Station. Many of the Oberland Station settlers travel to Graygarden often anyway for picking up their food supplies.



Location: Shaw High School

Nickname: Knuckle Punchers - This pugilistic marvel epitomizes the qualities in a strong man: brave, ruthless, and topless. These iron-fisted warriors do not need high-powered laser rifles to take down a deathclaw. No, they just need a good, old-fashioned knuckle sandwich delivered to its gaping jaw.

Owner: Arlen Glass

Back Story: One of the original partners of Wilson Atomatoys, the ghoulified Arlen Glass decided to change the new Commonwealth in his old ways: making toys for children. Instead of the toy rust buckets that formerly dotted the Commonwealth lands, Arlen and his helpers were able to get the Atomatoys factory up and running again, providing all the kids of the Commonwealth with their very own Giddyup Buttercup. While the corporate HQ lies in downtown Boston and the factory is near Quincy, Arlen grew to love the game of baseball and felt that owning a baseball team would require him to turn over operations of Atomatoys. This time, instead of being let go by a sniveling brat, he retired from the business and used his buyout to purchase the Knuckle Punchers.

Stadium: Atomatoys Stadium - Sponsored by Arlen Glass's old company, the stadium is the one kids' most want to visit. Of all the stadiums built in the Commonwealth, Atomatoys Stadium is the only one that features a Kids' Zone. In the Kids' Zone, rambunctious children can jump across sharp metal planks onto rusty metal planks, slide head first into broken beer bottles, and do other fun things their parents would never let them do, all while their parents get hammered and watch baseball.



Location: Vault 81

Nickname: Dwellers - These underground unexplorers have assumed the royalty role of the Commonwealth, considering their lot always to have been better than those above ground. The Dwellers are known for being creative, innovative, and hella good at passing the G.O.A.T.

Owner: Dr. Jacob Forsythe

Back Story: Forsythe got acquainted with Nate Howard after Howard saved young Austin Engill from a near-fatal encounter from some lab-created molerats. Later Forsythe became acquainted with Nate's companion Marie Curie, whom he did not know lived merely feet away from him for many years. After Nate tamed the Commonwealth, Forsythe and Curie worked together researching deadly diseases and formulating treatments and cures, hoping to extend the lives of human wastelanders. Their research brought in a lot of caps for Vault 81, and Forsythe reinvested those caps in the Dweller baseball franchise.

Stadium: McNamara Park - Named after the overseer (that's like the mayor of an underground vault) of Vault 81, McNamara Park was possible thanks to Vault 81 being one of the richer settlements in all of the Commonwealth. From Forsythe and Curie's miracle cures, plenty of caps flowed through the vault. Though McNamara was not interested in baseball, she was happy to know she would be the namesake of the Vault 81 baseball stadium built west of the vault along the Charles River.